[Tig] Daily Tk transfer to DVD

[pmendelson]

There are real time encoders available for VC-1 HD.  They tend to be
expensive, in the $40K area.
For AVC HD, there are real time encoders as well, and in the same price
range, but tend to output streams, not files.  It's a matter of time.

All of the above encoders are hardware accelerated.

Phil


On 7/25/06 11:27 AM, "TSassoon at aol.com" <TSassoon at aol.com> wrote:

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> In a message dated 7/25/06 11:03:38 AM, jeffkreines at mindspring.com writes:
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>> I think there will be resistance to it because it won't play on home 
>> DVD players, and it can't be recorded (for now) in realtime, 
>> compressed as H.264.
>> 
> 
> However, it H.264, aka AVC, is, along with MS VC-1, aka WM-9, the compression
> of choice for HD DVD's. Both could be described as "Super-MPEG-2", developed
> to take advantage of the dramatic increases in processing power and RAM buffer
> available since MPEG-2 was ratified. They're generally reckoned to have twice
> the efficiency of MPEG-2, that is, half the file size at a given quality, or
> double the quality at a given file size. There's a general preference for AVC
> over VC-1 because it's a (mostly) open standard, which is why Apple can bundle
> it free, as opposed to the Microsoft product, which, surprise, surprise, MS
> wants you to buy, even if only as part of Windows. There aren't any real-time
> recorders yet, but in the fullness of time...
> 
>> 
>> Also, JPEG-2000 may be strong competition for it, as it's more generic.
>> 
> 
> I'd be skeptical of that on a consumer level, and one of the points of this
> conversation, as you mention, is a high-quality approval medium that can be
> played on a common consumer device. There are compatibility issues with DVD+R
> DL, 
> especially with older computer drives.
> 
>> 
>> I bet there are still some people who want 3/4" U-Matic!
>> 
>> 
> There sure are. Within this year I've had several requests for U-Matic, two
> from a post supervisor whose Avid broke, and one from a NY ad agency, who
> astonishingly still considers it a standard tape medium, not some ancient
> relic. 
> Asking for a 3/4" is a sure-fire way to put my Data Manager (when I did it, it
> was called Tape Op) in a dark mood, as my 3/4" deck has become, let's say
> "temperamental". And he's a knife collector, so there's a bit of wory there
> :-) But 
> it's not like I'm motivated to spend the money to have it overhauled.
> 
> 
> 
> Tim Sassoon
> SFD vfx & creative post
> Santa Monica, CA
> 
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